Chapter 167: Out of the Circle
"The People's Middle School, which ranked fourth in the last term, failed unexpectedly!"
"Before this competition, I was quite optimistic about them and thought they might become our biggest enemy in defending the title..."
"What do you think? I'm not optimistic about the 'Four Knights of the White Night' at all. Their names are deceptive, but in fact their level is just like that... and they are 'both offensive and defensive'. Being both offensive and defensive means that they can neither attack nor defend! What the hell? Nowhere! ”
On the bus back to the Asian Games Village from the competition venue, the Shuguang High School players who had just won the game talked about several other games that were going on at the same time.
Among them, the strong dialogue between the fourth place in the last year and the sixth place in the last year is one of the games that they are paying attention to.
However, they are paying attention to this game not because of Dongchuan Middle School, but because of Renmin Middle School.
Amid everyone's discussion, Chen Xingyi clicked on the Goal app and found the video highlights of the national competition. He wanted to see the video highlights of the match between Dongchuan Middle School and Renmin Middle School.
This page is full of videos related to the national competition, including competition highlights, interview videos, and behind-the-scenes videos.
Generally speaking, video highlights of important games must be the most popular, so they will be ranked first on this list.
Logically speaking, the game highlight video of Shuguang High School's 4:1 victory over Haihe No. 3 Middle School should be the most popular right now.
Because ever since Chen Xingyi announced that he would lead the team to an unprecedented three consecutive national championships, everyone has been paying attention to every move of this team.
As their first game in this national competition, there will definitely be countless people paying attention.
This is not Chen Xingyi's boast, but it is the fact.
But when he clicked in, he found that the one at the top was not their game highlights, but...
"'Weird celebration, after Dongchuan Middle School scored in public...' What the hell is this title!" Someone exclaimed, apparently seeing the same video title as Chen Xingyi.
"I have also seen that the editors of "Goal" website are getting more and more cunning. Is this editor from the UC Shock Department?"
"The number of views... 100 million... 1.7 million! What the hell? A video that only lasts less than half a minute can have 1.7 million views?! Is there something wrong with this data? The game highlights between us and Haihe No. 3 Middle School can only be ranked third...with only 260,000 video views. This gap..."
"How is this possible?!"
"Isn't this the purpose of this title? After hearing you say this title, even I want to see what they did in public..."
When someone said this, many people took out their mobile phones one after another, and the car became quiet.
Even their head coach, Liang Yuanhao, who was sitting at the front, took out his mobile phone from his suit pocket and was curious about the video the players were talking about.
What did the players of Dongchuan Middle School do in public after scoring a goal?
It didn’t take long for the players’ doubtful voices to be heard in the carriage again: “…What is this?”
"I'll go... is there any way to celebrate like this?"
"Who can tell me what this celebration in Dongchuan Middle School means?"
“Didn’t the barrage say ‘fishing’?”
"Is this fishing? So No. 14 is...a fish?"
"Ha! Don't tell me, the acting looks really similar!"
"It's like a dying fish..."
"Hahaha!"
A huge roar of laughter erupted in the carriage.
Chen Xingyi looked at the phone screen in his hand. Shen Yulin, who scored the goal at the beginning, ran to the court and stood there, then made a gesture of shaking his arms. He really didn't understand what the opponent was going to do and was confused.
It wasn't until Hu Lai suddenly appeared on the screen rolling and thrashing on the ground that he burst into laughter.
Although he still didn't understand what this set of celebrations meant, Hu Lai's behavior really made him laugh.
At that time, all his attention was on Shen Yulin, but Hu Lai suddenly rolled in from the right side of the screen...
Only later did he see clearly that he was actually fishing as the barrage said.
Shen Yulin's first action was to throw the pole, and Hu Lai was the fish he caught...
The last group of people held this "big fish" and took a group photo.
That's what this whole celebration is about.
After understanding it, Chen Xingyi was a little bit dumbfounded - the video highlights of his hat trick and the game highlights of Shuguang High School were knocked off the top of the list by such a thing...
Yes, if there was no video of Dongchuan Middle School's celebration, then the video highlights of his hat trick would be ranked first on the popularity list, and the second ranked video would be Shuguang High School's 4:1 victory over Haihe No. 3 Middle School. Game highlights.
As for the game highlights of Dongchuan Middle School's 3:0 victory over Renmin Middle School... it is currently ranked eighth on this list, just squeezed out of the first screen.
Although it was a collective celebration at Dongchuan Middle School, Chen Xingyi could imagine with his knees that this set of celebrations must have been done by Hu Lai - he had no evidence, but that was what he thought, and he was very sure of it.
Who else could come up with such a funny celebration except that kid Hu Lai?
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"Qingqing, what are you looking at? Are you smiling like this?" On the high-speed train heading to the away game, his teammates saw Li Qingqing holding her mobile phone and laughing so hard that her shoulders were shaking, so they came over curiously.
"Ah, are you watching this too? I saw it on Douyin before... It's really funny. This is the first time I've seen people imitating fishing with celebrations..."
When his teammates saw the video on Li Qingqing's phone screen, they immediately recognized it.
"I have seen several videos of this on Weibo, posted by different people. Everyone is discussing it."
"It happened at the National High School Football Championship, the celebration after Dongchuan Middle School scored a goal."
"Don't tell me, it's quite interesting..."
"Today's high school students are becoming more and more thoughtful..."
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Xie Lan was sitting on the bed, holding her phone and browsing headlines. She was waiting for her husband to finish washing before going to bed.
At this time, she uploaded a video of a football match.
Or strictly speaking, videos of celebrations at football matches.
The video was accompanied by a commentary: "Just yesterday, in a national high school football championship game, a strange scene occurred - a team used an unexpected celebration method after scoring a goal. They imitated fishing and passed In the video, you can see someone imitating a fisherman throwing a rod. Just when everyone is confused, a person suddenly rolls over from a distance, imitating the appearance of a fish..."
Xie Lan had no intention of watching it, but when he heard the words "National High School Football Championship", his thumb that was sliding the screen suddenly stopped at the top of the screen.
Because she thought that her son was participating in this event...
Because she had a little relationship with her son, she wanted to see what was going on.
As a result, she soon frowned - as a close-up shot moved up, she actually saw her son in the picture!
That's right, that's the player who was picked up by everyone and was pouting like a "fish".
It's her Xie Lan's son, Hu Lai.
Even though the mobile phone screen is relatively small, she will never mistake her son's face.
She really didn't expect that she would be able to see her son in a video that made headlines... Although she did miss her son when he went out to compete in a competition and was not around, Xie Lan was still caught off guard by meeting him in this way.
At this moment, her husband Hu Lixin walked into the bedroom wearing a vest and underpants after washing up. Seeing her staring at her mobile phone, he casually asked: "What are you looking at?"
The speaker of the mobile phone just sounded the voice of explanation: "...the creativity of the high school players is really eye-catching. Now the whole Internet is talking about this very creative celebration. So, dear friends, you have What do you think..."
Xie Lan's hand shook and he quickly swiped up to cut through the video.
"High school player? When did you start paying attention to football?" Hu Lixin frowned after hearing these two sentences.
"I just swiped casually. How could I have found something related to football..." Xie Lan glanced at him, then locked the screen and calmly put his phone on the bedside table to charge. "Toutiao videos always push me some messy stuff... Go to sleep!"
Hu Lixin also climbed onto the bed, but turned over and hugged his wife's waist.
Unexpectedly, Xie Lan slapped his hand off: "I won't come today."
"Finally, my son is gone and no one bothers me..." Hu Lixin felt a little resentful.
"I'm tired, another day, another day..."
After saying that, Xie Lan reached out and turned off the light in the bedroom.
In the dark bedroom, Hu Lixin seemed to be stunned for a while, and then turned over and lay back: "Okay, sleep quickly..."
The room quickly became quiet, and Xie Lan could even hear his own heartbeat.
Just now, when she was staring at her son on the mobile phone screen, she suddenly heard her husband's voice, which really startled her. She was afraid that her husband would come up to take a look, and then all the things she had covered up for her son would be revealed - she You can’t point to your son on the screen and tell your husband, that’s just a high school player who looks exactly like our son, right?
Even though she was trying to stay calm, she was actually sweating from behind at that moment.
She is not afraid of her husband, but she is afraid that her husband will know about her child playing football. Because she knows all about her husband’s past, how angry she would be if her husband knew that their child had been playing football for two years without telling him...
The husband may be able to make concessions on many things, but on this matter, he will never give in.
According to Xie Lan's plan, after Hu Lai plays in this last national competition, he can study with peace of mind and prepare for the college entrance examination.
As long as her husband doesn't know about it, he can pretend it never happened.
Then when he is admitted to college, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away. He can do whatever he wants, even find a girlfriend, let alone play football...
Isn't that nice? It not only allowed his son to fulfill his wish to play football, but also did not destroy the relationship between father and son because of this incident.
And her careful arrangements almost came to nothing because of her lack of concentration. When she thought of this, how could she still be in the mood to do that?
(End of chapter)